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25 Cardozo J. Int'l & Comp. L. 595 (2016-2017)
Prosecuting Islamic State Members for Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes Committed against Yazidi Women and Girls

handle is hein.journals/cjic25 and id is 619 raw text is: NOTE PROSECUTING ISLAMIC STATE MEMBERS FOR SEXUAL AND GENDER-BASED CRIMES COMMITTED AGAINST YAZIDI WOMEN AND GIRLS Samantha Hechler* I. IN TRODUCTION ........................................................................... 595 II. T HE Y AZIDIS .............................................................................. 599 III. Is is ............................................................................................ 6 0 3 IV. SEXUAL AND GENDER BASED CRIMES ........................................ 605 V. MECHANISMS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY ......................................... 609 A. National Prosecutions in Iraq and Syria ............................. 609 B. The International Criminal Court ....................................... 611 C. Ad Hoc International Criminal Tribunals .......................... 613 D . H ybrid Tribunal .................................................................. 616 VI. ISIS MEMBERS SHOULD BE PROSECUTED IN FOREIGN N ATIONAL C OURTS .................................................................... 618 V II. C ON CLU SION .............................................................................. 624 I. INTRODUCTION On August 3, 2014, ISIS' attacked the villages of Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq.2 The Sinjar region was home to the majority of the * Staff Editor, Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law. Candidate for Juris Doctor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, May 2017; B.A., Binghamton University, 2012. . I Islamic State, ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) and IS1L (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) are used interchangeably to refer to the same group. 2 See Adam Taylor, Yes, the Islamic State's Attacks on the Yazidis constitute genocide, a new report says, WASH. POST (Nov. 12, 2015), https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/11/12/yes-the-islamic-states- attacks-on-the-yazidis-are-a-genocide-new-report-says/; Jonathan Brown, A year after ISIL attack, Yazidis 'will never forget,' ALIAZEERA (Aug. 25, 2015), http://www.aljazeera.comrnews/2015/08/year-isil-attack-yazidis-forget- 150823115932613.html; Iraq: Forced Marriage, Conversion for Yezidis, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, (Oct. 11, 2014, 11:45 PM), https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/10/1 1/iraq-forced-marriage-conversion-yezidis. 595

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